Koch, KARL, botanist, was born at Weimar, 6th June 1809. He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Jena, and in 1836 undertook a scientific journey to southern Russia. In 1843-44 he visited Armenia, Kurdistan, Transcaucasia, and the Crimea. He was appointed extra-ordinary professor of Botany at Jena in 1836, and in 1848 at Berlin, where he died, 25th May 1879. His chief work is his Dendrologie (1869-72); but he also published several books of travel, Beiträge zu einer Flora des Orients (6 parts, 1848-54), and a map of Transcaucasia and Armenia.
Koch, KARL
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